Ed Graczyk Collection

Ed Graczyk is a playwright and former Artistic Director of Players Theatre, a professional resident theatre company based in Columbus, Ohio. He gained wide recognition for his 1976 play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. The play was adapted into a film by Robert Altman in 1982. Graczyk has also has written several children’s plays. The collection is comprised of ten boxes containing notes, scripts, photographs, audiotapes, books, and scrapbooks.


Digitized here are recorded performances of some of Graczyk’s plays. Some recorded sound effects are also included.